UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 2% of original £183m penalty

UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 2% of original £183m penalty

British Airways expects the fine for its 2018 credit card data leak to be just 2 per cent of the original £183m proposed by the UK data watchdog – while US hotel chain Marriott has both halved and kicked its own data protection fine into the long grass once again, The Register can reveal.


Marriott has secured an extension for fine negotiations to 30 September, having secured two already; one from January to 31 March and a second that ran through May. On top of that, the company set aside $65m (£49.6m) to cover its fine, down from the Information Commissioner's original intention to impose a £99m penalty.


In its Q4 FY2019 financials published in May, Marriot's bean counters watchdog having making fines stick marriott scores another extension prepares original penalty